SSC CHSL 2018 Recruitment Overview :

Staff Selection Commission has released SSC CHSL Notification 2017-18 on 17th November at ssc.nic.in. SSC CHSL 2017-18 Recruitment has released to recruit candidates for 3259 Posts on various Ministries and Department of Government of India. The SSC is a government organization that yearly conducts CHSL examination. The Combined Higher Level Secondary examination is one of the most important exams which is conducted for the recruitment of Data Entry Operator and other posts. SSC CHSL 2018 Tier I exam will be conducted from 4th March to 26th March 2018 and Tier II exam has will be conducted on 8th July 2018to recruit the eligible candidates forPostal Assistants/Sorting Assistants, Lower Divisional Clerks, and Data Entry Operators (LDC & DEO) Posts. Here we are giving all the details regarding this examination including SSC CHSL 2017-18 Recruitment,Exam dates, vacancy details, eligibility criteria, age limit, exam pattern, syllabus, etc.

Latest Update 1: SSC has been announced the Final vacancies for the CHSLE, 2016 (For LDC Only) on date 12.02.2018. There are 6709 posts. For detailed information check below mentioned vacancy table.
Latest Update 2: SSC CHSL Tier-I exam is going to be held from 4th to 26th March 2018 via online mode.

Previous Updates: The Staff Selection Commission has decided to extend the last date of SSC CHSL Application Form submission. The Last date has been extended till 27th December 2017 upto 5:00 PM.

The Commission in strict conformity with the said instructions provisions has fixed the crucial date for reckoning of age as on 01.08.2018 in the Notice of CHSLE 2017. It is further made explicitly clear that the crucial date for reckoning of age and Educational Qualification for CHSLE, 2017 would be 01.08.2018 and no change in this date would be made.

Previous Update: Staff Selection Commission has released SSC CHSL Notification 2017 on the official website on 18th November. As per the official notice, the last date to fill up the online SSC CHSL 2017 application form is 18.12.2017.

SSC CHSL Application Form 2017 online submission has been started from 18th November and it will be closed on 18th December 2017. Therefore, SSC CHSL 2017 Online Form link has been activated online on the official website. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply online for SSC CHSL 2017-18 Exam on or before the last date. Here, candidates can get all the latest updates regarding SSC CHSL Recruitment 2018. We have updated all the required and necessary details.

SSC CHSL 2018 Important Dates :

Events

Dates (SSC CHSL 2016-17)

Dates (SSC CHSL 2017-18)

SSC CHSL Notification Declaration Date

8th October 2016

17th November 2017

Starting Date of Submit SSC CHSL Online Application Form

8th October 2016

18th November 2017

Last Date to Submit SSC CHSL Application Form

25th November 2016

27th December 2017

SSC CHSL Tier-I Admit Card Released Date

26th December 2016

February 2018

SSC CHSL Tier-I Exam Date

7th January to 8th February 2017

4th March to 26th March 2018

SSC CHSL Tier-I Result Declaration Date

1st June 2017

May 2018

SSC CHSL Tier-II Admit Card Release Date

June 2017

June 2018

SSC CHSL Tier-II (Descriptive Paper) Exam Date

9th July 2017

8th July 2018

SSC CHSL Tier-II Result Declaration Date

13th October 2017

October 2018

Date of Tier-3 (Skill Test / Typing Test)

27th Nov to 19th Dec 2017

Nov-Dec 2018

Declaration of Final Results

16th February 2018

Update Soon

SSC CHSL Recruitment 2018 Vacancy Details :

The SSC CHSL 2018 has offered recruitment for three major posts. The 3259 total number of vacancies have been released after the releasing the notification. Candidates are advised to read the full official notification. The commission has released 3259 vacancies. Let's have a look -

SSC CHSL 2018 Eligibility Criteria :

Education Qualification: Candidates need to check their eligibility criteria before applying for SSC CHSL Recruitment 2018. As the name suggests, Combined Higher level Secondary Exam requires candidates who have passed the 12th exam or an equivalent exam from a government recognized Board or University. To apply for Data Entry Operator in the Office of Comptroller and Auditor General of India, candidates must have passed 12th Standard in Science stream with Mathematics as a subject from a recognized Board or equivalent.

Age Limit: Candidates who want to apply for SSC CHSL 2018 Exam their age should be between 18 to 27 years. Age relaxation is applicable for the reserved category candidates as per the govt rules. 18-27 years as on 01.08.2018 (Candidates born not before 02-08-1991 and not later than 01-08-2000).

The relaxation in age is as per government policies which are as follow:

Category

Age Relaxation

ST/SC

5 years

OBC

3 years

PH

10 years

PH + OBC

13 years

PH + SC/ST

15 years

Ex- Serviceman (Unreserved / General)

03 years after deduction of military service rendered

Ex-Servicemen (OBC)

06 years ( 3 years + 3 years) after deduction of the military service rendered from the actual age as on the closing date.

Ex-Servicemen (SC/ST)

08 years ( 3 years + 5 years) after deduction of the military service rendered from the actual age as on the closing date

Central Govt. Civilian Employees (General/Unreserved) who have rendered not less than 3 years regular and continuous service as on crucial date

Up to 40 years of age

Central Govt. Civilian Employees ( OBC ) who have rendered not less than 3 years regular and continuous service as on crucial date.

Up to 43 years

Central Govt. Civilian Employees ( SC/ST ) who have rendered not less than 3 years regular and continuous service as on crucial date.

Up to 45 years of age

Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir( Unreserved/General )

5 years

Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir( OBC )

8 years

Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir( SC/ST)

Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof (Unreserved/General )

5 years

Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof (OBC )

8 (5+3) years

Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof (SC/ST)

10 (5+5) years

SSC CHSL Application Form 2017-18 :

The SSC CHSL 2017 Application Form online submission process has been started from 18th November and it has been closed on 27th December 2017. Candidates need to visit the official website for more details. Candidates are advised to apply online for SSC CHSL 2018 examination before the last date because after closing the candidates will not apply for it. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply online till 27th December 2017.

How to Apply for SSC CHSL Recruitment 2018?

Visit the official website - ssc.nic.in

Click on the "Notices" section

Click on the "CHSL" section and read official notification carefully

Click on the "Apply" Section

After that Click on the "Click Here to Apply"

A new window will open

If you are old user then log in with registration no and password otherwise register first

SSC CHSL Application Fee :

Candidates will have to pay Rs 100/- as SSC CHSL application fee. However, all female/ SC/ST and physically handicapped candidates are exempted from the application fee. The payment can be done using net banking, debit cards etc, while offline the application fee can be deposited by SBI challan or CRF stamps that can be bought from any post office.

SSC CHSL 2018 Exam Pattern :

The examination will consist of a Computer Based Examination (Tier-I), Descriptive Paper (Tier-II) and Typing Test/ Skill Test (Tier-III).

Here, We have mentioned the SSC CHSL 2018 Exam Pattern, which will be helpful for candidates who are going to appear in SSC CHSL 2018 Exam, There will be a written exam followed by a skill test. The pattern of the written exam is mentioned below -

SSC CHSL 2018 Tier-I Exam Pattern

S.No.

Subjects

Maximum Questions

Maximum Marks

Time Duration

1

General Intelligence and Reasoning

25

50

60 Minutes

2

General Awareness

25

50

3

Quantitative Aptitude

25

50

5

English Comprehension

25

50

Total

100

200

Points to be the highlight: -

The question paper will be available in both languages I.e. English & Hindi

The questions will be MCQ

There will be Negative markingand for each wrong answer, 0.50marks will be deducted.

There will be 25 questions from each of the above sections

The total number of marks will be 200

There will be a skill test for the post of Data Operator and the other test will be a typing test for the post of Assistant and clerk.

Tier II Exam Pattern

The tier II will be a descriptive type of total 100 marks in ‘Pen and Paper Mode. It will be of one-hour duration and candidate need to write an easy of 200-250 words and letter/ application of 150-200 words.

Skill Test/ Typing Test:

In this stage, candidates will have to give a typing speed test. The test will be conducted for both English and Hindi languages:

For English medium- typing speed of 35 words per minute

For Hindi medium – typing speed of 30 words per minute.

Test will be 10 minutes and printed matter in English containing about 2000-2200 strokes/key-depressions. VH candidates (with 40% disability and above) will be allowed 30 minutes.

SSC CHSL 2018 Selection Procedure :

For the SSC CHSL Recruitment 2018, the selection of the candidate will be done on the basis of written examination performance. Candidate needs to get qualified in order to get selected. Candidates need to clear all the stages i.e. Tier I and Tier II to get final selection. A candidate who will qualify both the tiers will be required to appear in typing test/ skill test. The Final selection will be done by considering over all performance and Merit Position scored by the candidate.

SSC CHSL Syllabus 2018 :

Here, we have mentioned the SSC CHSL exam syllabus which will helpful for candidates who are preparing for SSC CHSL 2018 Examination.

General Awareness: In this section, questions related to History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General policy and scientific research will be asked. Also the candidate needs to be aware about the surroundings and current happenings around the nation.

SSC CHSL Admit Card 2018 :

SSC CHSL Admit Card 2018 will be released by the Staff Selection Commission for Tier-I before 10 to 15 days of examination region wise. SSC CHSL Tier-I Exam will be conducted from 4th March to 26th March 2018. All candidates (who have successfully submitted the application form of CHSL) will be able to download SSC CHSL 2018 Admit Cardfrom the official website. Candidates will be able to download the admit card from official website of Staff Selection Commission and should go through all the mentioned instructions carefully.

SSC CHSL Cut Off 2018 :

SSC CHSL Cut Off 2018 will bereleased at the time of result declaration for the candidates who will be selected for the Descriptive Paper (Tier-II) exam. Cut-Off marks are the minimum qualifying marks which should be obtained by the applicants to qualify the examination. Below, we have given the Cut off marks, so candidates should check the given table. Below we have given the last year cut off marks of SSC CHSL Tier-I exam.

SSC CHSL 2016 Tier-I Cut-Off Category Wise

Category

SC

ST

OBC

VH

OH

HH

Ex.S

GEN

Total

Cut-Off Marks

108.00

99.00

120.00

96.00

97.50

65.00

64.50

127.50

No. of Candidates

7879

3509

20813

436

1123

509

4415

14517

53201

Post wise SSC CHSL Cut off Marks 2016

Category

SC

ST

OBC

VH

OH

HH

Ex.S

GEN

DEO

110-124

96-101

119-137

91-100

94-102

74-87

77-84

129-138

LDC

112-129

104-109

122-141

101-110

98-104

79-97

81-94

130-140

Postal/Sorting Assistant

115-129

107-111

125-131

103-113

99-107

78-87

90-95

132-145

SSC CHSL Result 2018 :

After the completion of the descriptive paper, SSC CHSL Tier-II Result 2016-17declared on 18th October 2017. SSC CHSL Tier-II Exam was conducted on 9th July 2017. Only those candidates had appeared in SSC CHSL Tier-II examination who got good marks in SSC CHSL Tier-I Exam Result 2016. The Commission has declared CHSL Tier-II Result 2017 on 13th October. Candidates will be able to check SSC CHSL Final Result 2016from here on 16th February 2018.

SSC CHSL Result 2018 for Tier-I examination will be announced on the official website after 2 or 3 months of examination.

SSC CHSL 2018 Online Test Series :

To hold a command over subjects practice is essential. Accordingly, here we are with a reason to help you with the SSC CHSL 2018 Online Test Series. This series will provide free SSC CHSL Mock testwith one separate analysis to manage the every particular subject. It will determine your position and current status. The test series will be based on updated and current syllabus prepared by experts. The user is also facilitated to take the local test to improvise knowledge and make it stronger. The test is conducted in both Hindi and English languages. Quick solution and easy access can be achieved through our application which was recently launched.

SSC CHSL Previous Year Papers :

If we solve the previous year papers then we can make a good command to solve the paper soon. For the reason that it is a key to success to helps us in getting thorough enough about the syllabus and structure of the question paper. It also makes us aware about the difficulty level of the question paper, though it varies from year to year. But these SSC CHSL Previous Year Papers will surely let you achieve more success in SSC CHSL 2018 examination.

SSC CHSL Preparation :

Focus on your reading skills. You must know how to write and speak in English fluently if you want to apply for the exam.

Make sure you have all the required resources before you start preparing for the exam.

Spend more time to study and practice the topics you find difficult. Gradually, if you focus on them you will find that you are able to solve them with much ease.

Having a good vocabulary will help you a lot. Candidates may refer to Norman and Lewis Word power for a vast collection of common vocabulary.

The reasoning section is considered the most important section for the exam. Thus, one needs to be thorough with the basics. The focus should be to not build short-cuts and practice the methods step wise to avoid making mistakes at the last moment.

Candidates may refer to wifistudy.com for additional practice.

Once the basics are right and thorough, the advanced reasoning questions can be easily thought upon and solved. You should also try to develop methods for speed calculations.

Getting your grammar concepts on your tips is very important. You might refer to Khan Academy for easy understanding and practice sessions of various grammatical concepts.

Cover entire syllabus to secure better marks. Try not to miss out on the major topics.

Make notes properly and try to discuss difficulties with your friends and teachers. Group study helps understanding in a better way.

Reading the newspaper (The Hindu or Times of India) and being aware of the current affairs is the way to crack this subject. Magazines like Competition success review can be referred.

Maintain a healthy lifestyle and sleep well. The key to crack this exam is to stay calm and be focused.